20st Century up to 1945

This expansive history depicts Latin America’s pan-regional culture of political murder. Unlike typical studies of the region, which often focus on the issues or trends of individual countries, this …

In the decades following World War II, the science of decision-making moved from the periphery to the center of transatlantic thought. The Decisionist Imagination explores how “decisionism” emerged f …

Ideal for history buffs and students, author H. G. Wells’s insightful study of the origins and ramifications of the first World War is divided into three main sections—The War in Italy, The Western …

In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Maryanne Cline Horowitz explores the image and idea of the human mind as a garden: under the proper educational cultivation, the mind may nourish see …

Lisbon rising explores the role of a widespread urban social movement in the revolutionary process that accompanied Portugal’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy. It is the first in-depth …

The expulsion and mass murder of the ethnic Germans in Poland before and at the start of World War Two was by no means restricted to the Bloody Sunday of Bromberg, a massacre that is all too often do …

This original and distinctive book surveys the political, economic and social history of Northern Ireland in the Second World War. Since its creation in 1920, Northern Ireland has been a deeply …

From fleeing the Warsaw Ghetto and living underground to fighting for social justice in 1960s’ Seattle and helping smash the communist system in 1980s’ Poland, this is a narrative that erupts into …

This is a biography of James C. Kopp who shot and accidentally killed Buffalo abortionist Barnet Slepian in 1998. It covers, among other things, his childhood, his college and love life, and his scie …

Following on from the enormous success of his bestseller, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, renowned author Sinclair Mc Kay uncovers the story of what happened after the end of the Second World Wa …